Goodyear welting



June 11, 1935. V w B W 2,004,887

GOODYEAR WELTING Filed April 20, 1934 W gazzwxm a Wz'Z/I 'Q/IZ 3/011/72 A I W Gi WW Patented June 11, 1935 GO ODYEAR WELTIN G William Brown, Quakertown, Pa., assignor to McAdoo & Allen Welting Company, Quaker-' town, Pa., a partnership consisting of Henry -M. McAdoo, William McAdoo, Jr., andGeorge H. Allen Application April 20, 1934, Serial No. 721,522

1 Claim.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide Goodyear welting for light weightv soles such, for example, as are used on ladies) shoes. 7 Another object of the invention is to provide such Goodyear welting at a reasonable cost.

Another object of the invention is to provide welting for the purpose indicated which will not be too flimsy and which will work properly through the machine guides while at the same time a portion of it may be removed after it has been stitched to the upper and before it is secured to the sole.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description at the end of which the invention will be claimed.

Generally stated, the invention consists in a strip of leather generally rectangular in cross sec tion and having on one face a stitch groove, said strip being thin yet stiff enough to go properly through machine guides, and said strip on the grooved face having a split ranging crosswise of the strip and providing at one of its edges a weakened line along which the split portion can be torn off after the upper has been sewed on.

The invention also comprises the improvements to be presently described and set forth in the claim.

In the following description reference will be made to the accompanying drawing forming part hereof and in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view drawn to a very much exaggerated scale and illustrating Goodyear welting embodying features of the invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of Figure I 1 drawn to a larger scale, and

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view illustrating a modification.

upper has been sewed on.

In the drawing, l is a strip of leather generally rectangular in cross section. This strip is in fact,

relatively thin but it is not tooflimsy to go through the machine guides, but in order that it may.

properly go through the machine guides it is thicker than it is intended to be in the finished shoe, which is provided with a light weight sole and is intended for ladies wear. This strip l is provided with a stitch groove 2 on its flesh side.

' Referring to Figures 1 and 2, 3 is a split ranging crosswise of the strip I and which provides at one of its edgesthe edge nearest the groove 2a weakened line 4 along which the split portion 5 can be torn off after the upper has been sewed on. As shown in Figures 1 and 2 the split 3 extends through the outside edgethe right-hand edge 7 in the drawingof the strip.

The construction and modeof operation of the modification shown in Figure 3 are as above described except'that the split 3 does not extend through either edge of the strip, but is directed outward to the face of the strip in proximity with the groove 2* so that the weakened line is provided at 4 I claim:

Goodyear welting for light weight soles comprising a strip of leather generally rectangular in cross section and having on one face a stitch groove, said strip being thin yet stiff enough to go properly through machine guides, and said strip having a split ranging crosswise of the strip leaving an uncut portion sufficient to hold it together in its passage through the guides and providing at one of its edges a weakened line along which the split portion can be torn OK after the 

